Other Health Impairments

Definition of Other Health Impairment (OHI)

Other health impairment means having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment, that—

Defining Other Health Impairment - Major and Minor

For the purposes of special education reporting and funding, the Ohio Revised Code makes a distinction regarding "other health impaired-major" and "other health impaired-minor.” The superintendent of public instruction is required to issue a list of conditions that comprise the majority of rulings of "medically fragile child.”

Medically fragile child memo
A list of conditions to use in determining if a child is to be reported in EMIS as "other health impaired-major" or "other health impaired-minor.”